Denouncing the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Germany, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his vow to stop radical terror groups and appeared to suggest a willingness to move ahead with his campaign pledge to ban temporarily Muslim immigrants from coming to the United States.

WASHINGTON -- The top lawyer for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid said Saturday that the campaign would join a third-party candidate's effort to seek a full recount in Wisconsin, and potentially two other states, though he said the campaign had seen no "actionable evidence" of vote hacking.

The scramble to shape his administration underway, President-elect Donald Trump's team has simultaneously begun turning its attention to raising tens of millions of dollars for festivities related to his Washington inauguration.

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump signaled a sharp rightward shift in U.S. national security policy Friday, naming Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA and former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to push back against news reports describing a chaotic transition to power, saying the process of selecting Cabinet secretaries and working with President Barack Obama's administration "is going so smoothly."

In his Manhattan high-rise, President-elect Donald Trump met Tuesday with Vice President-elect Mike Pence as he worked to fill key posts in his Cabinet. But the transition team appeared to be straining under the challenge of setting up a new administration.

by GARDINER HARRIS The New York Times | updated: 11/16/2016 4:12 a.m.
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President Barack Obama, in some of his strongest language since Donald Trump's election last week, on Tuesday warned against the rise of nationalistic tribalism, apparently a reference to Trump's decision to appoint Breitbart.com's Stephen Bannon to a top position.

House Speaker Paul Ryan unanimously won his GOP colleagues' votes on Tuesday for another term at the helm. He told fellow Republicans that he had President-elect Donald Trump's support, and he heralded "the dawn of a new, unified Republican government."